Cambio político y transformaciones institucionales en Yugoslavia (1946-1989)

Abstract

This thesis examines the political evolution of the Tito regime (1946-1980) and tries to verify the role of the Constitution of 1974 in the disintegration of Yugoslavia. This discussion argues that the constitution is a necessary, albeit not sufficient, element to understand the breakdown of consensus among the elites to preserve the Yugoslav state after the death of Tito in 1980. In short, the Constitution broke the balance between the republics forged in 1945 but the break can not be understood without the particular context created by the Oil Crisis of the decade of 1970 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, which broke two other pillars of the Tito regime: economic prosperity and the possibility of a Soviet invasion. The constitution of 1974 became an inadequate response to the problem of succession but to understand why it won over other alternatives it is necessary to understand it as a response to the historical circumstances opened after the invasion of Prague in 1968 and the regime's own inertia. To explain how this constitution altered the trajectory initiated in 1945 this thesis discusses various dimensions of the institutionalization of the regime between 1946 and 1989 and three critical moments for the regime: its consolidation (1948- 1952), the negotiation of Succession (1968-1974) and the certification of the failure of the regime (1986-1989).